Michael Schumacher security guard ‘tried to blackmail stricken F1 star for £12million so he could pay off his debts'
A HARD drive feared to be filled with Michael Schumacher's "intimate" pictures and medical files has gone missing, a German court heard.The extortionists have been accused of threatening the Ferrari star's family and conspiring to leak private pictures of him on the dark web.
He is thought to have initiated the extortion, by calling the Schumacher family and claiming to act as a middleman for other parties.Lewis Hamilton fights back tears with classy tribute to Mercedes colleaguesSchuey’s family awarded £170k damages over AI-generated ‘chat with F1 star’But while cops were able to recover the four USB sticks and one of the hard drives, the second one was not found.
Markus F - who is accused of being the plot's mastermind - worked as a security expert for Michael Schumacher for nine years. Schumacher's wife Corinna, 55, has filed a motion to protect her husband, which will allow her to exclude the public from the trial if the seven-time world champion's current state of health is discussed.Corinna was forced to sack himMICHAEL Schumacher’s life was hanging by a thread 10 years ago as medics tried desperately to keep him alive after a tragic skiing crash that left him with horrific brain injuries.
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